check out the Pink Chambers!!

**Fatnsassy** · November 15th, 2006, 07:10 PM

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**Kitzig** · November 15th, 2006, 07:28 PM

How darling. How did they do that? How do you change the colors on these stoves? Would you use some kind of paint or just redo the finish?

Hmmm... now I have to look for a pink and a black chambers. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Lori G.

**ha_asfan** · November 15th, 2006, 07:40 PM

LOVE the pink, love it! Says her husband re did it.....can't see any handle labels, bet it was painted over. Still, sure is lovely.

**Fatnsassy** · November 15th, 2006, 08:06 PM

She says that it came that way. They found it at the local antique store and the store delivered it. It was the delivery that was the deciding factor. I think they redid the kitchen retro around the pink stove. Fun isn't it!

Fatnsassy

**Gasseous** · November 15th, 2006, 09:14 PM

Sounds like noone in their neck of the woods had heard of a Chambers either.... but they sure knew about Rachael Ray.... seems as though Rachael was instrumental in the restoration of at least 1 more Chambers stove.... eh?

Dennis

**ha_asfan** · November 15th, 2006, 09:35 PM

Says: My amazing husband did all the work to refurbish it. Cleaned it. Scraped rust. Replaced insulation. Primed it... Basically took it completely apart and put it back together.
I would think that "primed it" refers to repainting it....no?
Whatever ws done to it, it's delicious looking! I still don't like what RR is doing to cooking nor that she abuses her stove.

**ha_asfan** · November 16th, 2006, 02:02 AM

I found out that the stove is the original pink color!

**chipperhiker** · November 16th, 2006, 02:37 AM

Define "original." Original as in it had pink panels before they bought it, or factory original?

A bunch of professional stove refurbishers reporcelain in pink.

I thought I read somewhere that Chambers might have offered pink porcelain in the late 50s, but that could be just misinformation I'm propagating.

It's definitely a late 50s model - burner with a brain, and (missing) script-type name plate that left three holes in the backsplash, instead of the two holes from the eaarlier plaque-type name plate. I also think I can make out the gas valve labels, and they're usually (though not always) lost when panels get new porcelain.

By the way, Ha, you have a great kitchen! Loved the slideshow you posted.

So, anyway, what's the deal? Did Chambers really make pink stoves, and if so, why hasn't one shown up on ebay in the last 14 months I've been watching? All the other colors have put in an appearance.

-Jenn

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**ha_asfan** · November 16th, 2006, 02:43 AM

well, the woman who owns the pink said it was "original". it has labels above the handles, the silk screened ones as mine does. thanks for the nice words about my cookspace, i love it, so does peter.